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  1. Roffle on Lie Detector Glasses Coming Soon · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    LOL, HILARIOUS JOKE!

    Quit whining and format your hard drive if you hate Windows so much. Surely you know about the alternative, being a /. reader and all.

  2. Hmm.. on WW2 Aerial Photographs Go Online · · Score: 1

    I wonder if the data will be freely available to game companies before the whole "Ultraviolent D-Day FPS" fad finally goes away.

  3. Redundant! on New Gamepad Designed To Build Muscles? · · Score: 1

    Existing gamepads already build up my muscles. My THUMB muscles!

  4. Re:Sorry, but this is fucking stupid. on Core PHP Programming · · Score: 2, Interesting

    PHP seems to attract everybody under the sun--including horrible, horrible programmers. I've had to maintain PHP written by someone else before, and it wasn't pretty. Far from being pretty, it was some of the ugliest code I've ever seen. And when I looked for help on forums with certain problems I ran into, the responses I received were oftentimes truly amateur hackery.

    That's probably why PHP has a bad name. That and magic quotes.

  5. Sweet on Photoshop CS Adds Banknote Image Detection, Blocking? · · Score: 1

    I should sell my copy of Photoshop 7 as a counterfeiting tool on eBay!

  6. Re:The promlem? Censorship! on Photoshop CS Adds Banknote Image Detection, Blocking? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Gimp is structured that way to give the end user a feeling of accomplishment when he actually does something. Haven't you noticed the webpages that might feature a simple drop shadow or two, but at the bottom it proudly says "DESIGNED WITH GIMP!!!!!!!!!!"? That's a badge of honor, buddy!

  7. Objective Ministries will hear about this on Internet Archive Opens Crawler Code Under LGPL · · Score: 1

    Heretics? This will join the FreeBSD devil and "Darwin" on Objective's list as to why Open Source is the spawn of the Devil.

  8. 1,000,000s OF EMAIL ADDRESSES - L@@K! on What You Get When You Buy a Spam CD · · Score: 2, Funny

    Promote your business to millions of fictitious addresses!!! Waste your bandwidth!! Guaranteed 0.000% clickthrough rate!

  9. Terminology will come to git'cha on 75% of Network Connections Not From Browsers · · Score: 1

    Web connections, my ass. "Web" suggests HTTP, and HTTP is used primarily by browsers.

    By and large, IM and P2P communicate on their own protocols.

  10. LiveCD on Wireless APs in Homebrew Coffee Shops? · · Score: 1

    Somebody should produce a Wifi Hotspot Live CD that has all of these settings by default. I imagine a lot of small business owners wouldn't mind setting up their own services, so long as it didn't require much of their time to set up and maintain.

  11. Wow on USB Menorah · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's the nerdiest thing I've ever heard about. Seriously. And I've used /. for almost six years.

  12. Alas on Perl is Sweet Sixteen · · Score: 1

    Some things don't get better with age.

    Ha ha ha ha.

    But seriously, I respect Perl, it's just that I can't get the damn syntax down. ...and you smell like one too!

  13. Sucks to be them on Intel To Produce Cheap LCoS Chips · · Score: 1

    Sucks to be one of the people that have bought into the LCD TV fad. LCD technology is much too unwieldy when stretched to TV proportions. They might be bragging to the neighbors now, but come next Xmas, they're going to be wishing they weren't so unscrupulous. /me kisses his Viewsonic CRT.

  14. Beat Up Martin on Top 10 Personal Computers, Revised · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Eat Up Martha

  15. "Smashing" indeed on 2000 Year Old Roman d20 Up For Auction · · Score: 1

    How the hell is one supposed to roll a glass die without it exploding into glass shards?

  16. I have an elegant solution on Wireless-Friendly Microwaves · · Score: 1

    Just do all of your wireless networking within a gigantic Faraday cage!!!

  17. I dropped the ball, god dammit! on Superball! · · Score: 1

    I left the CS computer labs about 30 minutes before this happened. Dammit, I wish I had remembered!!!

  18. I dub this particle.. on New 'Mystery Meson' Sub-Atomic Particle Discovered · · Score: 1

    the JESUS particle!

  19. Stupid D&D Game Names on Hordes of the Underdark Goes Gold · · Score: 1

    Guh! All these AD&D derivitive games seem to have the SAME damn name!

  20. Not a laughing matter on Best Buy Uses DMCA To Quash Black Friday Prices · · Score: 1

    But what if FatWallet loses? This would set a horrible precedent.

  21. Oops.. your wife just changed ISPs (nt) on Send Emails After Your Death · · Score: 1

    no text

  22. Exposure to sexuality is a blessing as well on Rules for Teenage Internet Access? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It was discovering gay Internet communities that stopped me from hating myself. In most areas of the U.S., teens that question their sexuality aren't allowed to have anything resembling a constructive dialogue that helps them come to terms with themselves. I lived in an oppressively homophobic, fantically religious small town where being gay was outright unthinkable. The innate homophobia in high school doubled the effect. I HATED it, almost became suicidal. But the Internet helped me bring my confusing "differences" into sharper focus, gave me the chance to feel less alone, and provided me hope for eventually escaping the evangelical confines of my surroundings. Access to gay youth resources on the Internet would be the first thing to go if a filter was in place. Especially if a log file was being recorded. The last thing a gay teen wants to do is tip his parents off about his sexuality before he wants to!

  23. All clear, you can all come out now on Earth's Asteroid Risk Downgraded · · Score: 1

    ...because the Sprint PCS Wireless Web lets you take your eLife everywhere you go!

  24. Re:Dissenting views on Science? on The Elegant Universe, Now Available Online · · Score: 1

    THANK you. Jesus, people need to stop interpreting everything at literal face value.

  25. Dissenting views on Science? on The Elegant Universe, Now Available Online · · Score: 1, Troll

    Are there any dissenting views on Science itself? Because I know there are a lot of Creation Scientists that have an axe to grind with blasphemous atheist constructs like the "Scientific Method". REVOKE PBS' FEDERAL FUNDING! THE STATE IS SQUELCHING RELIGION WITH ITS SECULAR POISON!